Dr David Wood
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Dave WoodReader Office: B1.13 |
I will be on Study Leave during the academic year 2024/25
Research Interests:
Dynamical systems, bifurcations with symmetry, applications to biology and industry.
Previous Roles:
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Mathematics): 2006-2024
Previous Department Committees:
- Undergraduate Teaching Committee
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC)
- First Year Exam Board
- Second Year Exam Board
- Finals Exam Board
Previous University Committees:
- Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Education Committee (SEMEC, formally SFEC and SUGS) [Chair 2012-2016]
- Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine First Year Board of Examiners (FYBOE) [Chair 2012-2016, 2018-2019]
- Board of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine (2012-2016, 2017-2020)
- Student Learning Experience and Engagement Committee (SLEEC)
- Board of Undergraduate Studies (2012-2016)
- Warwick Active Community Programme Steering Committee (Warwick Volunteers) (to July 2024)
- Chair of the Faculty of Science Teaching and Learning Forum (2012-2016)
- Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) Management Committee (to July 2024)
- Technology Enhanced Learning Steering Group
- Various other AQSC working groups
Most relevant recent publications:
- D. Wood, Hopf Bifurcations In Three Coupled Oscillators With Internal Z2 Symmetries, Dynamics and Stability of Systems 13, pp 54-93, 1998. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681119808806254
- D. Wood, A Cautionary Tale Of Coupling Cells With Internal Symmetries, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 11, pp 123-132, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1080/02681119808806254
- D. Wood, D. Allwright, Optimisation Of Hydrophone Placement: A Dynamical Systems Approach, European Journal of Applied Mathematics 14, pp369-386, 2003, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956792503005175
- M. Bayliss, R. Morris, M. Muldoon, M. Readman, L. Reynolds, I. Stewart, D. Wood, Control Of Free Length When Coiling A Helical Spring, IEE Control Theory and Applications, 148, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-cta:20010426
- D. Wood, Making better springs using aspects of chaos theory, Proc. IMechE Vol. 220 Part C: J. Mechanical Engineering Science, 2006, https://doi.org/10.1243/095440606x79136
- K.S. Rock, M.J. Keeling, D.A. Wood, Modelling the future of the Hawaiian honeycreeper: An ecological and epidemiological problem, Ecological Modelling 235/236,pp 26–35, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.004
- K.S. Rock, D.A. Wood, M.J. Keeling, Age- and bite-structured models for vector-borne diseases, Epidemics, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.006.
- I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation of Signals by Feedforward Networks, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 23, pp167-204, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1137/23M1552267.
- I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation of Signals in Feedforward Networks of Standard Model Neurons, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2025, to appear, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11776.
- I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation in Feedforward Networks for Biped Locomotion, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11780.
For more information and further publications see Dave Wood's personal homepage